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June’S Blooms, Allotment Gardens, Bunce Common Road, Leigh, Surrey, RH2 8NS
Planning appeal 3314385 at June’S Blooms, Allotment Gardens, Bunce Common Road, Leigh, Surrey, RH2 8NS (Mole Valley District Council) was dismissed on 12 September 2023 by Inspector Hobbs J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies.
to demolish approximately 6 partially collapsed wooden nursery green houses and concrete slab foundations and replace with one single storey residential dwelling
- Authority
- Mole Valley District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Hobbs J
- Postcode
- RH2 8NS
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area
- the effect of the proposal on biodiversity including protected species
- the effect of the proposal on highway safety
- whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal
What decided it
The proposal constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt with substantial harm to openness and character, and the modest benefits do not clearly outweigh this harm to amount to very special circumstances.
the modest benefits of housing delivery, local economic support, and family care do not outweigh the substantial harm to the Green Belt including loss of openness and the additional harms to character and appearance and biodiversity
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy CS1Policy CS14Policy CS15Policy ENV15Policy ENV22Policy ENV23Policy MOV2
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 111Paragraph 134Paragraph 147Paragraph 148Paragraph 149Paragraph 174
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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